
“South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot in the head in Saigon, Vietnam on Feb. 1, 1968. The photo, by photojournalist Eddie Adams, became one of the Vietnam’s War’s most indelible images, winning a Pultizer Prize in 1969. Adams died at his Manhattan, New York home from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease (news – web sites), Sunday, Sept. 19, 2004 said his assistant, Jessica Stuart. He was 71.”